Hi Rick, thks for the reply. Comments below: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 23:12, Rick Stevens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/08/2009 03:44 PM, Andre Costa wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> apps crashes are generating coredumps on /var/cache/abrt/* ; since I >> won't debug them myself and won't send them anywhere because they're too >> big, I would like to turn them off. I tried uncommenting >> >> #* soft core 0 >> >> on /etc/security/limits.conf but it did not work, coredumps were still >> being generated. >> > > I believe you need to reboot for that to take effect. I did that, to no avail :-( > Then I tried to set >> >> MaxCrashReportsSize = 0 >> >> directly on /etc/abrt/abrt.conf, restarted abrtd but it didn't work >> either (oddly enough abrt-gui doesn't allow changing this setting, "ok" >> button is disabled -- not even if I run it as root). >> >> So, as a last resource I created a script on /etc/cron.daily to get rid >> of the coredumps, but I'd rather not create them in the first place. >> >> Anyone could give a hand? >> > > Well, you should also, as root: > > echo 'fs.suid_dumpable = 0' >> /etc/sysctl.conf > sysctl -p > > That prevents suid programs from creating core files. You should > also make sure that there is a line to the effect: > > ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 > > is in /etc/profile so that all users have a core file dump limit size > of 0 bytes. > Cool, nice tips, will implement them and see if they finally free me from these damned coredumps =/ (IMHO there should be an easier way of doing that, considering this is a "new" feature shipped with F12) Regards, Andre
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